Cooler Master General Case Owners Club and Showcase

Supercrumpet · November 11, 2020

Cooler Master Cases

In an attempt to get some discussion and build sharing going, I'll make the first case club here on EHW. Since we're not super active yet, I feel like one general thread per case manufacturer would be appropriate, and as activity picks up, we can split each series into its own thread as necessary. I've added all of the series and cases that CM currently sells, in addition to some of the more popular older offerings. More older cases can be added as users with them post. Feel free to leave any feedback.

Cosmos Series

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HAF Series

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MasterBox Series

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MasterCase Series

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N Series

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Silencio Series

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Owners

KSIMP88 - HAF 932 Advanced

Bastiaan_NL - HAF 932

Supercrumpet - HAF 932 Advanced, HAF XB, MasterCase MC500P, MasterBox Q300L

Cosmix48 - Cosmos II

damric - HAF 912, HAF XB

ENTERPRISE - HAF Stacker 915R, MasterCase Pro 5

Sir Beregond - MasterFrame 700

pioneerisloud - HAF 700, MasterBox TD500 Mesh V2

Edited December 14, 2023 by Supercrumpet

Supercrumpet · November 11, 2020

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KSIMP88 · November 11, 2020

Still rocking my Cooler Master HAF 932 Advanced. I would love to see a refresh of this case, maybe even upgrades to buy? The front panel ports come off easily, so come on Cooler Master, build me a USB 3.1 panel! USB-C, etc

Supercrumpet · November 11, 2020

On 11/11/2020 at 19:23, KSIMP88 said:

Still rocking my Cooler Master HAF 932 Advanced. I would love to see a refresh of this case, maybe even upgrades to buy? The front panel ports come off easily, so come on Cooler Master, build me a USB 3.1 panel! USB-C, etc

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Hey, very nice. I had a 932 Advanced as my first case. In hindsight that was extremely silly, but I was blindly following another friend's recommendation given only my budget, and he was blindly following logicalincrements. I'll definitely be flushing out the HAF series in the OP even though it's pretty much all retired, and I'll post some pics of my old CM builds as well.

Bastiaan_NL · November 11, 2020

I still have the HAF 932, 360 rad in the top and 240 rad in the front.
Spray painted all the grey metal black, removed the hdd cage and the bottom of the 5.25" cage.
It's still one of my most favorite cases and it has seen a lot of different hardware

Supercrumpet · November 12, 2020

I'll add the HAF series to the OP tomorrow probably, but here's my first build in my 932 Advanced. Still have the case tucked away in a closet, but I've been debating letting go of it as a free local pickup because frankly it's just taking up space, and I don't forsee myself ever needing it again.

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Cosmix48 · November 12, 2020

These are some throwback photos to 2013 when I built my my first computer in a Cosmos II. It was a big and heavy 75lb (Empty Case is 47lbs) behemoth that I loved to death. (I still have the case and the original components, which still work.) I'll probably keep the thing forever, and may end up using it as a oversized media server as it has 13 drive bays. Cheers

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Supercrumpet · November 12, 2020

On 12/11/2020 at 04:09, Cosmix48 said:

These are some throwback photos to 2013 when I built my my first computer in a Cosmos II. It was a big and heavy 75lb (Empty Case is 47lbs) behemoth that I loved to death. (I still have the case and the original components, which still work.) I'll probably keep the thing forever, and may end up using it as a oversized media server as it has 13 drive bays. Cheers

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Wheyyy, welcome to the forum and thanks for posting. The Cosmos II is a case and a half.

Supercrumpet · November 12, 2020

Added almost every single HAF case I know of earlier today, the last one being the HAF XC, which never made it into production as far as I'm aware.

I just want to highlight the HAF Stacker again. Such a cool concept at a very approachable price for what it was. When they released it I really wanted one but I didn't have the need nor the funding for one. Now that I have both, it's long gone. Real shame it didn't catch on; would have been a cool trend with other mainstream case manufacturers.

Anyways I'll take the opportunity to show off the life of my HAF XB. Started out as a replacement for my 932 after I got sick of how massive it was, so naturally I needed to replace it with something that had a larger footprint.

Swapped out some parts for some upgrades and aesthetic improvements not too long after.

Much better. If I remember correctly, I swapped out everything except for the hard drives and the CPU. Everything else was sold or eventually repurposed.

Eventually, those internals were moved to my Riotoro CR1080 so it was a little more portable. The XB then housed my 24/7 folding rig, first with my two R9 Furys, then a 980 and a 960, chosen for the OCN Folding Team Competition. It still remains with the mismatching Nvidia cards, but those will probably get swapped out before too long.

Yes, I did color theme a dedicated folding rig with matching fans, RAM, and sleeved cable extensions. Yes, it's a problem.

Also, bonus group photo. Seems familiar @Cosmix48.

Bastiaan_NL · November 13, 2020

On 12/11/2020 at 23:56, Supercrumpet said:

Yes, I did color theme a dedicated folding rig with matching fans, RAM, and sleeved cable extensions. Yes, it's a problem.

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I'm guilty of this too, matching rgb and sleeved cables on every build

Bastiaan_NL · November 13, 2020

Here are a few pictures I found after searching my old backup drives.
I've had this case for over 10 years, and it has seen a lot of different hardware. I did a few small mods to it, in those years, but nothing special.

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Supercrumpet · November 13, 2020

On 13/11/2020 at 21:16, Bastiaan_NL said:

Here are a few pictures I found after searching my old backup drives.
I've had this case for over 10 years, and it has seen a lot of different hardware. I did a few small mods to it, in those years, but nothing special.

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First picture I could find, i7 920 with a GTS450. I think it was the second system at this time, because I had a GTX275 somewhere.

(and the Scythe Ultra Kaze is installed here, dangerous piece of hardware )

Same CPU but this time upgraded to a pair of GTX460's, running F@H 24/7

I don't remember the hardware here, but the wheels were nice to pull it from under my desk. Needed a lot of cleaning with the carpet...
Also the 5.25" to 3.5" bay was nice, an extra fan to cool the HDD's and also a good place to "hide" them.

And this is what it looks like now:
Extra (dusty) air intake with 2 clear shrouds and a Noiseblocker fan (all of them by the way)

360 rad in the top, push pull as intake with a dustfilter on top

240 rad in the front, also push pull as intake. Not much room there, I cut most of the 5.25" cage to fit it there.
And extra fans to keep some air moving, dropped another few degrees on most of the hardware.

And the last one, 2 5700xt's folding 24/7 and a 9100F doing "nothing"

Soon the watercooled 2080ti will take the place of those 5700xt's. Maybe I'll change out the pump because it's also at least 5 years old.

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That's a sweet set of pictures, thanks for posting. After looking at your pictures and poking through my files to look for photos of my old setups over the past couple days, I kind of want to continue to hang onto my 932 as well, but I don't know what I'd ever do with it.

damric · November 13, 2020

My first Cooler Master case was the HAF 912. It was a very good budget case, and crazy good airflow once all of the fan slots were filled.

I kept it maybe a year or two until I could get my hands on the HAF XB. When I saw the prototype demonstrations for that I knew I had to have it. You just cannot beat the horizontal motherboard layout. I have had this case for so long now that I can't remember when I bought it. 2012 maybe? It was almost as soon as it became available. I've run a ton of hardware builds through it and it is still what I use for MY RIG. The wife and the kids have the fancy glass towers with the RGB lightshow, but I'm not giving up my airflow box. I change out the fans every couple of years, and very often it needs a good cleaning. The only disappointment was when the drive bay pcb stopped working and I had to order a replacement pcb from overseas because apparantly there is no longer any CM support in the USA. I'd love to see this model get a modern update. Until then I'll just keep on with what I have. I'll post some pictures of it from the past decade's builds next time I'm here.

damric · November 14, 2020

HAF XB tray makes it very easy to swap motherboards for benching/testing. Here's a few of the configurations I got to play around with in recent years. Some AM4 boards, Z170, A88X...

ENTERPRISE · November 15, 2020

I still own my HAF Stacker 915R, though not in use right now. My last tower case however was the Mastercase Pro 5. Awesome case for the time with stunning airflow. Easy to carry as well with the clever handle grips worked into the design.

Supercrumpet · November 16, 2020

On 14/11/2020 at 16:28, damric said:

HAF XB tray makes it very easy to swap motherboards for benching/testing. Here's a few of the configurations I got to play around with in recent years. Some AM4 boards, Z170, A88X...

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On 15/11/2020 at 00:46, ENTERPRISE said:

I still own my HAF Stacker 915R, though not in use right now. My last tower case however was the Mastercase Pro 5. Awesome case for the time with stunning airflow. Easy to carry as well with the clever handle grips worked into the design.

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Good stuff guys!

I updated the OP at the end of last week, should include pretty much everything CM currently has on offer, plus some of the more popular cases from the good 'ol days.

I'm kind of annoyed at myself that I didn't get any proper pictures of this iteration of my main rig since I think it was my best, but I've already sold the 980 Ti and these are the two good pictures I have of the MC500P build. Pics are from last year; I really really like how that front "panel" turned out when I just left it open and cut out that support beam for the mesh cover, looks really nice but it's pretty impractical. Whatever, those are my priorities haha.

Last week I also received my Q300L, so keep an eye out for that. Will hopefully be building/rebuilding most of that over the next week or two.

Edited November 16, 2020 by Supercrumpet

Bastiaan_NL · November 16, 2020

On 14/11/2020 at 16:28, damric said:

HAF XB tray makes it very easy to swap motherboards for benching/testing.

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I still hate myself for getting rid of my ATCS 840 case. It also had a motherboard tray, something that should be used on more of the high-end cases.

On 16/11/2020 at 10:34, Supercrumpet said:

Last week I also received my Q300L, so keep an eye out for that. Will hopefully be building/rebuilding most of that over the next week or two.

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That's a nice setup!
I know how you feel about taking not enough pics. I had so many builds, cool setups and things like that but I only have a few pictures from them.
Looking forward to the Q300L build, looks like a nice compact case to build in

ENTERPRISE · November 16, 2020

On 16/11/2020 at 10:34, Supercrumpet said:

Good stuff guys!

I updated the OP at the end of last week, should include pretty much everything CM currently has on offer, plus some of the more popular cases from the good 'ol days.

I'm kind of annoyed at myself that I didn't get any proper pictures of this iteration of my main rig since I think it was my best, but I've already sold the 980 Ti and these are the two good pictures I have of the MC500P build. Pics are from last year; I really really like how that front "panel" turned out when I just left it open and cut out that support beam for the mesh cover, looks really nice but it's pretty impractical. Whatever, those are my priorities haha.

Last week I also received my Q300L, so keep an eye out for that. Will hopefully be building/rebuilding most of that over the next week or two.

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I did enjoy the rubber cable grommets in the bottom of the CM cases at the time. Made cable management nice and easy!

Supercrumpet · November 23, 2020

Q300L update, stuff isn't fitting quite the way I expected it to, so I'm taking the stupid route.

Also this is my first time delving into RGB stuff, I'm having a great time with the cabling.

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Bastiaan_NL · November 23, 2020

On 23/11/2020 at 14:14, Supercrumpet said:

Q300L update, stuff isn't fitting quite the way I expected it to, so I'm taking the stupid route.

Also this is my first time delving into RGB stuff, I'm having a great time with the cabling.

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Sounds like a great time, good luck making it work!
I know how you feel with the RGB cabling, RGB looks cool but it's lot of cables to mess with

Supercrumpet · November 24, 2020

On 23/11/2020 at 18:46, Bastiaan_NL said:

Sounds like a great time, good luck making it work!
I know how you feel with the RGB cabling, RGB looks cool but it's lot of cables to mess with

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It was indeed just a simple case of wiggling the RAM, as my friends call it. Remove all sticks, re-insert one at a time, no issues. Missing some fan splitters that should show up today, but I was able to get enough fans running for it to operate at acceptable temps while folding, so we're back up to normal. Will post more pics when it's all set up tonight or tomorrow night.

Bastiaan_NL · November 25, 2020

I'll remember that one, give it a good RAM wiggle and you'll be fine
Good to hear that it's sorted, fold on

Supercrumpet · December 4, 2020

"Will post more pics when it's all set up tonight or tomorrow night," he lied. Whoops.

Got some more bits and bobs for the Q300L build in the mail a couple days ago, so hopefully when I got some time this weekend I'll re-cable some things and take a before and after.

Supercrumpet · December 5, 2020

Other plans I had for tonight fell through so I went ahead and added the new stuff tonight, including a fan controller, fan grilles, and a kayak handle. Quite pleased with the outcome.

The whites of the fans, GPU, and RAM don't match in person but they look great in pictures. Only thing I'm waiting for at this point is sleeved cables.

Bastiaan_NL · December 5, 2020

That looks nice!
Good thing you installed grills on those fans

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